Chapter Twenty-one
Warning: This chapter contains thoughts of suicide and attempted suicide, please proceed with caution.
Icy wind whipped her hair into her face, she hated the cold and she hated the snow blanketing the trail and mountain side, they had reached the mountains five days prior and she hadn't been comfortably warm since, they were high on one of the tall mountains, the air was thinner and it was so, so cold. She shivered and leaned into Jays warmth behind her.
"Are you ok?" He asked, his voice rumbling next to her ear, she shrugged. The riders had found another shifter as they had been nearing the mountains, an older man she hadn't known, he had died in the second night in the mountains and the riders had unceremoniously dumped his body off a cliff, the thump that echoed through the air when he hit the ground still made her sick when she thought of it.